CONCERT PROGRAMCONCERT PROGRAM

BENJAMIN NORTHEY CONDUCTS

SIBELIUS 211–12 MAY 2017

ARTISTS

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Benjamin Northey

Piano Stefan Cassomenos

REPERTOIRE

Beethoven Coriolan Overture

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’

INTERVAL

Sibelius Symphony No.2

Running time 1 hour 55 minutes including 20-minute interval

PRE-CONCERT ORGAN RECITAL

As with all of the MSO’s Melbourne Town Hall Series, renowned composer and organist Calvin Bowman will perform a pre-concert organ recital in the historic setting of the Melbourne Town Hall. This free performance will begin at 6.30pm.

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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an arts leader and Australia’s oldest professional orchestra. Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has been at the helm of MSO since 2013. Engaging more than 2.5 million people each year, the MSO reaches a variety of audiences through live performances, recordings, TV and radio broadcasts and live streaming. As a truly global orchestra, the MSO collaborates with guest artists and arts organisations from across the world. Its international audiences include China, where the MSO performed in 2016 and Europe where the MSO toured in 2014.

The MSO performs a variety of concerts ranging from core classical performances at its home, Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual free concerts at Melbourne’s largest outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The MSO also delivers innovative and engaging programs to audiences of all ages through its Education and Outreach initiatives.

The MSO also works with Associate Conductor, Benjamin Northey, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, as well as with such eminent recent guest conductors as Thomas Ades, John Adams, Tan Dun, Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Mark Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz and Simone Young. It has also collaborated with non-classical musicians including Burt Bacharach, Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Minchin, Ben Folds, DJ Jeff Mills and Flight Facilities.

BENJAMIN NORTHEY CONDUCTOR

Australian conductor Benjamin Northey is the Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and the Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has previously held the post of Resident Guest Conductor of the Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (2002-2006) and Principal Conductor of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra (2007-2010).

Northey also appears regularly as a guest conductor with all major Australian symphony orchestras, Opera Australia (Turandot, L’Elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Carmen) and New Zealand Opera (Sweeney Todd).

With a progressive and diverse approach to repertoire, he has collaborated with a broad range of artists including Maxim Vengerov and Slava Grigoryan, as well as popular artists Tim Minchin, Barry Humphries and James Morrison.

An Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, his awards include the prestigious 2010 Melbourne Prize Outstanding Musician’s Award as well as multiple awards and nominations for his numerous recordings with ABC Classics.

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STEFAN CASSOMENOS PIANO

Melbourne pianist and composer Stefan Cassomenos is one of Australia’s most vibrant and versatile musicians. Stefan has performed internationally since the age of ten, and performed the premiere of his own composition Piano Concerto No.1: Aegean Odyssey with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16.

Stefan now gives regular solo recitals and concerto performances throughout Australia, Europe, and Asia, with recent engagements including recitals in Zurich (Tonhalle), Leipzig (Gewandhaus), Bonn, Weimar, Ludwigshafen, Kirchheimbolanden, Malta, London, and throughout the UK.

In 2013, he was a grand finalist and recipient of the Second Grand Prize in the prestigious International Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition Bonn, in Germany. He was also the recipient of the Chamber Music Prize. In 2012, he was a grand finalist in the Rhodes International Piano Competition.

Stefan is a founding member of acclaimed ensemble PLEXUS with MSO violinist Monica Curro and clarinetist Philip Arkinstall. He is generously supported by Kawai Australia and the Youth Music Foundation of Australia.

PROGRAM NOTES

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Coriolan Overture, Op.62

Beethoven composed the Coriolan Overture (1807) for a drama by Heinrich Collin, a contemporary poet doubtless familiar with Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. The title character is one Gaius Marcius, a Roman general who was bestowed the honorary name of Coriolanus following his conquest of the Volsci people of Corioli. When he is banished from Rome for tyrannical conduct, he leads the Volsci against Rome and is executed (in Collin’s version he commits suicide).

Powerful chords in the overture’s introduction reflect the hero’s determination to reconquer and restore peace to Rome, which he now holds under siege. Vacillating figures reveal his self-doubt at the thought of the famine-stricken Roman people and the pleadings of his family. This conflict is worked out in a powerful development which leads to gradual disintegration and a swift final collapse at the recognition that only the sacrifice of his own life will bring peace without loss of honour. © Anthony Cane

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed this overture on 9 January 1941, with Harold Beck conducting, and most recently in October 2015 with Eoin Anderson.

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat, Op.73, ‘Emperor’

AllegroAdagio un poco mosso –Rondo (Allegro)

Stefan Cassomenos piano

In May 1809 Napoleon’s armies occupied Vienna for the second time and with considerable violence. Beethoven took shelter with his brother Carl and his wife Johanna, and to protect his failing hearing spent the bombardment of 11 and 12 May in the cellar with pillows over his ears. Before, during and after the invasion and despite his misery, Beethoven managed to work. He composed the Op.70 piano trios and three piano sonatas including Op.81a, Les Adieux (The Farewell), which reflects Beethoven’s sorrow at seeing his patron Archduke Rudolf leaving Vienna, as did so many of the aristocracy during the invasion. He also composed the String Quartet Op.74, popularly known as the Harp Quartet, and completed the Fifth Piano Concerto (also dedicated to Rudolf).

By this time Beethoven’s deafness made it impossible for him to perform with an orchestra, so the concerto’s first performance in Leipzig in 1811 was given by a young organist, Friedrich Schneider. At the Viennese premiere in 1812, Carl Czerny was soloist. Given the political circumstances, it is hardly

surprising that the concerto is, in Alfred Einstein’s words, the ‘apotheosis of the military concept’ in Beethoven’s music.

In the Fifth Concerto, Beethoven solved the problem of how to exploit the soloist’s virtuosity without downgrading the role of the orchestra, while constructing the kind of musical argument and drama which was so crucial to the Classical style. This is achieved partly through masterstrokes like the very opening gesture: a single chord is sounded by the orchestra, to which the piano responds in such flamboyant style, creating a sense of uncertainty about how and when the orchestra will rejoin the music, and what form the actual thematic material will take. The overwhelming impression left by the first movement is of ceremonial grandeur and pomp – hence the nickname (not authorised by Beethoven) of Emperor. But the massive scale of this movement is made possible by the frequent contrast of the ‘military’ (characteristic march rhythms) and the reflective. Beethoven prepares the movement’s climactic moments with what scholar William Kinderman calls ‘the withdrawal of the music into a mysterious stillness’. To prepare the moment of recapitulation, where the opening material returns, Beethoven allows the music to become rarified and serene: a passage of ever-quieter scales and trills gives way to a pastoral dialogue between the winds and the bell-tones of the piano.

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JEAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957)

Symphony No.2 in D, Op.43

AllegrettoTempo andanteVivacissimo –Allegro moderato

Sibelius, like Brahms, came relatively late to writing symphonies, producing his First at the age of 33 and premiering it in 1899. Like Brahms, though, Sibelius had accrued considerable experience in writing for orchestra. The 1890s saw the composition of works like Kullervo, En saga, movements which later became the Karelia Suite, and the original version of the Lemminkäinen Suite.

What all these works have in common is their preoccupation with the myths and legends of Finland, which remained until 1917 a satellite of Imperial Russia. As a member of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, Sibelius hadn’t given much thought to the traditional mythology of the Finns until his engagement in 1890 to Aino Järnefelt, whose family were very pro-Finnish. At the time he was studying in Vienna, where the music of Anton Bruckner made a deep impact on him. While Sibelius’ enthusiasm for Bruckner later cooled, the influence of the Austrian composer – particularly his ability to structure large-scale symphonic movements – remained crucial.

The short, central Adagio movement, rightly described as dreamlike by one writer, is in B major, which in terms of Classical tonal logic is a fair way away from the ‘home’ key of E flat. And its mood couldn’t be further from the military episodes, despite its material being dominated by the scales and trills that featured in the first movement.

A justly celebrated instance of ‘the withdrawal of the music into a mysterious stillness’ occurs at the transition from the slow movement into the finale. The transition is almost imperceptible – Beethoven changes a note here or there to subtly change the direction of the music as it seems to fade, and the piano begins ruminating on a common chord which will ultimately flower as the final movement’s bounding theme, which again is contrasted with moments of deep calm. Whatever the misery in which Beethoven wrote this work, or its immediate political context, it turns out to be another ode to joy.Abridged from a note by Gordon Kerry © 2003

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto in 1943 with conductor E.J. Roberts and soloist Joyce Greer, and most recently in September 2016 with Douglas Boyd and Paul Lewis.

PROGRAM NOTES

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Sibelius’ nationalist music was related to a growing political consciousness: by 1899 the Russians were actively discriminating against Finns and suppressing their language. Sibelius’ enterprise in the 1890s, then, was to create a Finnish musical language out of the drama of its legends, the typical modal patterns of its folksong and the rhythmic imprint of its verse, and to blend these elements with the contemporary idioms of Bruckner, Liszt and Tchaikovsky.

Sibelius always denied that the Second Symphony (1902) had any extra-musical significance but commentators – particularly in Finland – have often argued for its having an implicit program of national liberation. The audiences at its premiere performances certainly thought so: the composer was acclaimed as a national hero.

Its first movement seems to evoke the pastoral landscapes of Finland, shot through with a sense of incipient grief. During its course the symphony passes through often fragmentary stages of deep melancholy and conflict before emerging in the final movement with one of Sibelius’ most stirring and memorable tunes.

In fact, Sibelius began writing music which ended up in the symphony while holidaying in Italy. From his correspondence we know he was contemplating at least two projects: a set of tone-poems called Festivals and a single-movement work on the

story of Don Juan. Out of the sketches for these works, Sibelius fashioned some of his most memorable gestures: the sinister opening of the second movement was originally to have evoked the figure of Death arriving at Don Juan’s castle.

The work may be a document of national liberation, but it is also about the process of unifying and reconciling diverse, often fragmentary, musical gestures, so that the expansive melody of the finale seems the inevitable outcome of all that went before.

Five years later, Sibelius would have his much reported meeting with Mahler where he advocated a ‘severity of style and the profound logic that creates an inner connection between all the motifs’. Mahler’s response, ‘No, the symphony must be like the world and embrace everything’, missed the point. In their different ways, they were saying the same thing.Abridged from a note by Gordon Kerry © 2003

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed this symphony on 25 March 1939 under conductor Bernard Heinze, and most recently in February 2012 with Benjamin Northey.

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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Sir Andrew Davis Chief Conductor

Benjamin Northey Associate Conductor

Hiroyuki Iwaki Conductor Laureate (1974-2006)

FIRST VIOLINS

Dale Barltrop Concertmaster

Eoin Andersen Concertmaster

Sophie Rowell Associate ConcertmasterThe Ullmer Family Foundation#

Erica Kennedy*‡ Guest Principal

Peter Edwards Assistant Principal

Kirsty BremnerSarah Curro Michael Aquilina#

Peter FellinDeborah GoodallLorraine HookKirstin KennyJi Won KimEleanor ManciniDavid and Helen Moses#

Mark Mogilevski Michelle RuffoloKathryn TaylorMichael Aquilina#

Jacqueline Edwards*Robert John*Oksana Thompson*

SECOND VIOLINS

Matthew Tomkins Principal The Gross Foundation#

Robert Macindoe Associate Principal

Monica Curro Assistant PrincipalDanny Gorog and Lindy Susskind#

Mary AllisonIsin CakmakciogluFreya Franzen Anonymous#

Cong GuAndrew HallAndrew and Judy Rogers#

Francesca HiewTam Vu, Peter and Lyndsey Hawkins#

Rachel Homburg Isy WassermanPhilippa WestPatrick WongRoger YoungAaron Barnden*Amy Brookman*

VIOLAS

Christopher Moore PrincipalDi Jameson#

Fiona Sargeant Associate Principal

Lauren BrigdenKatharine BrockmanChristopher CartlidgeAnthony ChatawayGabrielle HalloranTrevor Jones Cindy WatkinElizabeth WoolnoughCaleb WrightGaëlle Bayet†William Clark*

CELLOS

David Berlin Principal MS Newman Family#

Rachael Tobin Associate Principal

Nicholas Bochner Assistant Principal

Miranda Brockman Geelong Friends of the MSO#

Rohan de KorteKeith JohnsonSarah MorseAngela SargeantMichelle WoodAndrew and Theresa Dyer#

Rachel Atkinson*Zoe Knighton*

DOUBLE BASSES

Steve Reeves Principal

Andrew Moon Associate Principal

Sylvia Hosking Assistant Principal

Damien EckersleyBenjamin HanlonSuzanne LeeStephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser#

Hugh Kluger*

FLUTES

Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous#

Wendy Clarke Associate Principal

Sarah Beggs

PICCOLO

Andrew Macleod Principal

OBOES

Jeffrey Crellin Principal

Thomas Hutchinson Associate Principal

Ann Blackburn

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COR ANGLAIS

Michael Pisani Principal

CLARINETS

David Thomas Principal

Philip Arkinstall Associate Principal

Craig Hill

BASS CLARINET

Jon Craven Principal

BASSOONS

Jack Schiller Principal

Elise Millman Associate Principal

Natasha Thomas

CONTRABASSOON

Brock Imison Principal

HORNS

Robert Johnson*§ Guest Principal

Saul Lewis Principal Third

Jenna BreenAbbey Edlin Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#

Trinette McClimontJosiah Kop*

TRUMPETS

Geoffrey Payne Principal

Shane Hooton Associate Principal

William EvansJoshua Rogan*

TROMBONES

Brett Kelly Principal

Iain Faragher*

BASS TROMBONE

Mike Szabo Principal

TUBA

Timothy Buzbee Principal

TIMPANI

Tim Corkeron*^

PERCUSSION

Robert Clarke Principal

John ArcaroRobert Cossom

HARP

Yinuo Mu Principal

MSO BOARD

Chairman

Michael Ullmer

Board Members

Andrew DyerDanny GorogBrett KellyDavid KrasnosteinDavid LiHelen Silver AOMargaret Jackson ACSophie Galaise

Company Secretary

Oliver Carton

# Position supported by* Guest Musician† On exchange from West German

Radio Symphony‡ Courtesy of Orchestra Victoria§ Courtesy of Sydney Symphony

Orchestra^ Courtesy of Queensland

Symphony Orchestra

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SUPPORTERS

MSO PATRON

The Honourable Linda Dessau AC Governor of Victoria

ARTIST CHAIR BENEFACTORS

AnonymousPrincipal Flute ChairDi JamesonPrincipal Viola ChairJoy Selby SmithOrchestral Leadership ChairThe Gross FoundationPrincipal Second Violin ChairThe Newman Family Foundation Principal Cello ChairThe Ullmer Family FoundationAssociate Concertmaster ChairThe Cybec Foundation Cybec Assistant Conductor Chair

PROGRAM BENEFACTORS

The Cybec Young Composer in ResidenceMade possible by the Cybec FoundationMeet The OrchestraMade possible by The Ullmer Family FoundationEast Meets WestSupported by the Li Family TrustThe Pizzicato Effect(Anonymous)Collier Charitable FundThe Marian and E.H. Flack TrustSchapper Family FoundationSupported by the Hume City Council’s Community Grants ProgramMSO EducationSupported by Mrs Margaret Ross AM and Dr Ian Ross

MSO Audience AccessCrown Resorts FoundationPacker Family FoundationMSO International TouringSupported byHarold Mitchell ACSatan JawaAustralia Indonesia Institute (DFAT)MSO Regional Touring Creative VictoriaCybec 21st Century Australian Composers ProgramThe Cybec Foundation

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE $100,000+

Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO The Gross Foundation◊

David and Angela LiMS Newman Family Foundation◊

Joy Selby SmithUllmer Family Foundation◊

Anonymous (1)

VIRTUOSO PATRONS $50,000+

Di Jameson◊

Mr Ren Xiao Jian and Mrs Li QuianHarold Mitchell ACKim Williams AM

IMPRESARIO PATRONS $20,000+

Michael Aquilina◊

The John and Jennifer Brukner FoundationPerri Cutten and Jo DaniellMary and Frederick Davidson AMvRachel and the late Hon. Alan Goldberg AO QCHilary Hall, in memory of Wilma CollieMargaret Jackson ACDavid Krasnostein and

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MAESTRO PATRONS $10,000+

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PRINCIPAL PATRONS $5,000+

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Mr Bill FlemingJohn and Diana FrewSusan Fry and Don Fry AOSophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser◊

Geelong Friends of the MSO ◊

Jennifer GorogLouis Hamon OAMNereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM ◊

Hans and Petra HenkellFrancis and Robyn HofmannHartmut and Ruth HofmannJack HoganDoug HooleyJenny and Peter HordernDr Alastair JacksonSuzanne KirkhamDr Elizabeth A Lewis AMPeter LovellLesley McMullin FoundationMr and Mrs D R MeagherDavid and Helen Moses◊

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The Hon. Michael Watt QC and Cecilie HallLyn Williams AMAnonymous (1)

ASSOCIATE PATRONS $2,500+

Dandolo PartnersBarbara Bell, in memory of Elsa BellBill BownessOliver CartonJohn and Lyn CoppockMiss Ann Darby, in memory of Leslie J. DarbyNatasha Davies, for the Trikojus Education FundMerrowyn Deacon

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Beryl DeanSandra DentPeter and Leila DoyleLisa Dwyer and Dr Ian DicksonJane Edmanson OAMTim and Lyn EdwardDr Helen M FergusonMr Peter Gallagher and Dr Karen MorleyDina and Ron GoldschlagerColin Golvan QC and Dr Deborah GolvanLouise Gourlay OAMPeter and Lyndsey Hawkins◊

Susan and Gary HearstColin Heggen, in memory of Marjorie Drysdale HeggenRosemary and James JacobyJenkins Family FoundationC W Johnston FamilyJohn JonesGeorge and Grace KassIrene Kearsey and M J RidleyKloeden FoundationBryan LawrenceAnn and George LittlewoodH E McKenzieAllan and Evelyn McLarenDon and Anne MeadowsMarie Morton FRSAAnnabel and Rupert Myer AOAnn Peacock with Andrew and Woody KrogerSue and Barry PeakeMrs W PeartGraham and Christine PeirsonRuth and Ralph RenardS M Richards AM and M R RichardsTom and Elizabeth RomanowskiJeffrey Sher QC and Diana Sher OAMDiana and Brian Snape AM

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Alan and Dorothy PattisonMargaret PlantKerryn PratchettPeter PriestEli RaskinBobbie RenardPeter and Carolyn RenditDr Rosemary Ayton and Dr Sam RicketsonJoan P RobinsonCathy and Peter RogersDoug and Elisabeth ScottMartin and Susan ShirleyDr Sam Smorgon AO and Mrs Minnie SmorgonJohn SoDr Michael SoonJennifer SteinickeDr Peter StricklandPamela SwanssonJenny TatchellFrank Tisher OAM and Dr Miriam TisherP and E TurnerThe Hon. Rosemary VartyLeon and Sandra VelikSue Walker AMElaine Walters OAM and Gregory WaltersEdward and Paddy WhiteNic and Ann WillcockMarian and Terry Wills CookeLorraine WoolleyPanch Das and Laurel Young-DasAnonymous (19)

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SUPPORTERS

THE MAHLER SYNDICATE

David and Kaye BirksMary and Frederick Davidson AMTim and Lyn EdwardJohn and Diana FrewFrancis and Robyn HofmannThe Hon Dr Barry Jones ACDr Paul Nisselle AMMaria Solà The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall

TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

Alan (AGL) Shaw Endwoment, managed by PerpetualCollier Charitable FundCrown Resorts Foundation and the Packer Family FoundationThe Cybec FoundationThe Marian and E.H. Flack TrustGandel PhilanthropyThe Scobie and Claire Mackinnon TrustThe Harold Mitchell FoundationKen & Asle Chilton Trust, managed by PerpetualLinnell/Hughes Trust, managed by PerpetualThe Pratt Foundation

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE

Current Conductor’s Circle MembersJenny AndersonDavid AngelovichG C Bawden and L de KievitLesley BawdenJoyce BownMrs Jenny Brukner and the late Mr John BruknerKen Bullen

Luci and Ron ChambersBeryl DeanSandra DentLyn EdwardAlan Egan JPGunta EgliteMarguerite Garnon-WilliamsLouis Hamon OAMCarol HayTony HoweLaurence O'Keefe and Christopher JamesAudrey M JenkinsJohn and Joan JonesGeorge and Grace KassMrs Sylvia LavellePauline and David LawtonCameron MowatRosia PasteurElizabeth Proust AOPenny RawlinsJoan P RobinsonNeil RoussacAnne Roussac-HoyneAnn and Andrew SerpellJennifer ShepherdProfs. Gabriela and George StephensonPamela SwanssonLillian TarryDr Cherilyn TillmanMr and Mrs R P TrebilcockMichael UllmerIla VanrenenThe Hon. Rosemary VartyMr Tam VuMarian and Terry Wills CookeMark YoungAnonymous (23)

The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support received from the Estates of:Angela BeagleyGwen HuntPauline Marie JohnstonC P KempPeter Forbes MacLarenLorraine Maxine MeldrumProf Andrew McCredieMiss Sheila Scotter AM MBEMolly StephensJean TweedieHerta and Fred B VogelDorothy Wood

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Ambassador

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Life Members

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The Late John Brockman AO

The Late Alan Goldberg AO QC

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SUPPORTERS

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Supporting Partners

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Principal Partner

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“Artists play a vital role in colouring the creative city we live in. They enrich our lives by reflecting on the world around us and the thoughts within us.”Dale Barltrop Concertmaster   Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

The City of Melbourne is proud to support major and emerging arts organisations through their 2015–17 Triennial Arts Grants Program.

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Arts Access Victoria

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